Biology/oblique plane
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Hi, I am studying Exercise Science and I would like to know if you could please describe a movement in the oblique plane? I am having difficulty with this.
Thank you so much!
Thanks for using AllExperts. Throughout the field of anatomy, "oblique" refers to diagonal or slanted direction relative to the horizontal and vertical directions. The oblique plane is a plane inclined relative to the transverse and vertical planes--you could think of it as a combination of transverse and vertical directions. Recall that the coronal and sagittal planes both lie in the vertical direction; I'll be using those terms in a minute.
Movements in the oblique plane consist of actions that move through multiple planes and that cannot be categorized as solely occurring in the sagittal, coronal, or transverse direction. Swinging a golf club or baseball bat are both examples of movements in the oblique plane: each one consists of individual movements that occur in different planes. An anatomical example would be pronation of the ankle: pronation takes the foot through dorsiflexion, eversion, and abduction, all of which occur in different planes.
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